Four Poems

Poetry by Kerry Desrochers
Smog, by Theo Huber. Copyright/courtesty the artist.




night driving

the car explodes
takes you with it
a polite hostage
enjoying the upholstery





before i die

i will never be
that guy
paddling down the
river on his kayak as if
he was me





hole in the ceiling

you on my body
the giant dog beside the bed
the murderer on the roof
watches tv with us





life & death

life: a series of checks and balances

death: you don't need any underwear

Kerry Desrochers

Kerry Desrochers is a Canadian Metis writer whose poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the New York Quarterly, Queen’s Quarterly, Chicago Review, the Harvard Advocate, Frogpond, Prairie Fire, and elsewhere. He taught English at universities in South Korea for over 20 years.

Theo Huber

Theo Huber is a visual artist based in Hamburg, Germany.

In his painting practice, he looks for images that tell of the daily struggles, joys, longings, and failures of being human. In combining autobiographical references, everyday observations, comic elements and surreal inventions, he creates pictures in which inner processes (feelings, memories etc.) meet the circumstances of the world surrounding him (paying rent, traffic, nightlife, etc.).

Most of his paintings relate to the urban space. The dialectic of its myth between the dreamy romanticism of the big city and the place of failure, impoverishment, and isolation has become a central motif of Huber's work and research.

He studied in Halle, Dresden, Boston and at the HfBK Hamburg, in the class of Jutta Koether, where he completed his MFA in 2024.

Find out more at: www.theohuber.de